Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union, UC Berkeley
The objective of the Spring 2007 conference was to examine the culture of the academy with an eye toward making recommendations toward greater inclusion. To this end, representatives from the University of California system, including administration, faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, staff, and undergraduates, convened on the University of California, Berkeley campus to share insights, best practices, and recommendations for making diversity a core value across the University of California system. A total of twenty-seven panels and workshops were constituted with over 600 registrants in attendance. These panels and workshops explored common interests and concerns, as well as engaged their audiences to suggest concrete action items or policy recommendations for broadening the participation of underserved members of the academic community.
Changing the Culture of the Academy explores ways that the academy might incorporate the challenge of diversity as it pertains to its core mission and practice. Participants will consider new paradigms for rethinking the academy that are inclusive of various cultural and disciplinary traditions, learning styles and identities. This will include opening a dialogue about these issues across all disciplines—from the social sciences and humanities to the physical and life sciences, public policy, law and engineering. This conference offers a venue for discussing the role of our public institution in connecting diversity with institutional excellence. In what ways does the University of California reflect the needs and concerns of the diverse community in the local and the global arena? How does embracing equity and inclusion affect our pedagogy and research interests? How do intramural and extramural funding priorities dovetail with or divert from these missions? We welcome your participation in any of the preconstituted panels below or you may propose additional papers, presentations, panels and workshops consonant with the conference theme. The primary goal of the conference is to create a working model for change within the University of California system, developing concrete steps which move beyond tolerance towards a self-reflexive and truly inclusive university system rooted in excellence.
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Sponsors
President Robert Dynes, UC Office of the President
Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, UC Berkeley
National Science Foundation
Graduate Division, UC Berkeley
Graduate Division, UCLA
Graduate Division, UC Merced
Graduate Division, UC Riverside
Graduate Division, UC San Diego
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara
Graduate Division, UCSF
Graduate Division, UC Santa Cruz
Division of Social Sciences, College of Letter & Sciences, UC Berkeley
UC Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences (UC DIGSSS)
Co-Sponsors
Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate
Graduate Assembly, UC Berkeley
Institute for the Study of Social Change, UC Berkeley
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